All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

God has created the world in play.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.